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*(NoMoiieL) v W. H. DAVIS & A. A. HAWLEY.

STOCKING, SOCK, AND SLIPPER.

Patented Nov N. PETUB. mmmm, Via-M5100. D. C.

UNITED STATEs PATENT OFFICE.

WILBUR H. DAVIS, on LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, AND ALFRED A. HAWLEY, or BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, Assronons TO THE MERINO SHOE GOM- PANY, or BOSTON, MASSAGHUSETT STOCKING, SOCK, AND SL'lPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 287,807, dated November 6, 1883.

,Massachusetts, and-ALFRED A. HAWLEY,.Of

Baltimore, in the county of Baltimore, in the .State of Maryland, have jointly'invented a new and useful Improvement in Stockings,

Socks, and Slippers or Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to stockings, socks, and slippers made. of wool fiber, the object of \it being to increase the thickness of the fabric constituting the stocking, sock, or slipper, and thus make them warmer and more serviceable,- and it consists in awoolen stocking, sock, or slipper of knitted or woven fabric, having upon the inner surface a layer of wool affixed by rubbing, in the usual manner of hardening or felting wool.

To make our improved stocking, we make up a stocking of woolen yarn very loosely knitted or woven, and much larger than it will be when finished, but in proper'forln for a finished stocking. WVe then cover the inside of the stocking with a layer of soft wool of uniform thickness- This is done by carding fiat bats-of wool of suitable quality and thickness, and then tearing or cutting from the bat pieces of a size and form to cover the whole inside of the stocking. To apply the wool to the stocking, it is turned wrong side out. The wool is then laid on so as to cover It is then hardened in a to some extent, with thatof the knitted or woven stocking, and is thereby affixed to the knitted or woven-fabric. The stocking, with the fiber of the layer of wool is incorporated,

the wool on it, is then submitted to the full-. ing or milling process, by which the stocking is shrunk to the proper/size, and the wool layer becomes so incorporated with the knitted fabric that it is integral with it, and the knitted Application filed May 21, 1883; (No model.)

or woven part-has the: appearance of felted goods. It is obvious that such a coating of wool may beaffixedon both the inner and completed, the surface may be finished byteaseling, or in any other suitable manner.

In'the drawings annexed, Figures 1 and 2 show a perspective of our improved stockings and a section of the same; Figs. 3 and 4 show a sock and a section of the same. Figs. 5 and 6 show same. I

a indicates the knitted or woven fabric.

a indicatesthe layer of wool affixedto the knitted or woven fabric.

7 Any loosely Woven or knitted wool fabric may have a layer of wool added to and incorporated with it in the manner described.

We claim as newand our, invention- 7 '1. The above-described improved stocking,

consisting of a knitted or woven wool fabric with alayer of wool added to and made integral with it, substantially as described.

a slipper, and a section of the 2. A sockconsisting of a knitted or woven Woolen fabric with a layer of wool added to and made integral with it, substantially as described.

.3. A slipper or shoe consisting of a knitted or woolen fabric with a layer of wool added to it and made integral with it, substantially as described.- 7 a 4; A layer of woven or knitted woolen fabric and a layer of wool of uniform thickness incorporated together and made integral by felting and fulling, substantially as described.

WILBUR H. DAVIS. ALFRED A. HAWLEY.

Witnesses: i

' FREDK. L. HOUGHTON,

011s. HOUGHTON. 

